This is privatisation of state education. Who cares what the Carphone Warehouse boss wants. Schools should be in the business of education not commercialisation. Shame on the headteacher for this.

As a parent of a child already displaced by Tulketh`s closure, I am very concerned about this proposal.
Are we going to be consulted, or simply told it is going to happen?
We sent our children to Tulketh as we wanted them to go there, not to Fulwood and certainly not to an academy.
Yes we did object to Tulketh`s closure, but it was a forgone conclusion that it would close regardless!
I imagine this will be exactly the same.
When this was first discussed, I called the education dept to ask for infomation on what exactly an academy was, they couldn`t tell me!
I would like to know what other parents think.

This is a disgraceful New Labour privatisation.

It gives power to the private investor vastly out of proportion to their actual investment.

Yet again the private tail wags the public dog.

I`m sure all the children will think they are going to get a free mobile phone!

I do hope all parents of both Fulwood and Tulketh children will not just say they object,but put it in writing asap.

Academy status for the newly merged Fulwood and Tulketh Schools provides an excellent platform on which to grow the school. The demise of Tulketh is undoubtably sad, however for the 2008 school year there were 31 first choice requests from parents. This is a school with an intake capability of 200. How could the Tulketh school remain viable when the majority of parents from it's catchment areas are choosing to send their children to Archy, Broughton and Fulwood. The forecasts predicted that the 2009 intake for Tulketh would be 12 children !!

The mergers of both Primary and Secondary schools in Lancashire is only at the beginning. There is a huge over supply of education provision. Even after the merger of Tulketh and Preston their remains hundreds of untaken spaces at the less popular schools. At least 2 further secondary schools in Preston will need to close in the next two years.

With academy status the newly merged Fulwood and Tulketh school will achieve a level of new funding (Over £20m). This will allow students to gain an even greater level of education provison than what is being provided by a strong and committed management team at Fulwood.

Whatever the figures may or may not have been, we didn`t want our children at Fulwood.

From the above comment I gather that this method of become an academy and receive lots and lots of money will be used as bribery to convince people its the way forward!!
If they can find the money for that, then they could find the money to keep our schools as they are and not bring in private education through the back door!!

I hope that people vote with their feet and leave the academy in droves, not much use with £20m then is it.

what happened to the full story on Thursday,09/09/08 was an embargo put on it for a latter date by Lancashire county council and the new private sponsor? if this is the case doesn't the people have a right to know what happening?